GARDENA – A pregnant woman assaulted in Gardena lost her baby, and sheriff’s deputies assigned homicide detectives to the case Sunday.

Two women got into a fight in the 2500 block of East 130th Street about 9:30 p.m. Saturday, and a 36-year-old woman who was about eight months pregnant was injured in the abdomen, according to deputies with the Sheriff’s Headquarters Bureau.

Deputies withheld the names of the people involved.

The pregnant woman was allegedly assaulted by her son’s 23-year-old girlfriend.

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